Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6372104 | Cobalt base alloy sputtering target with high magnetic field penetration A cobalt based alloy having a chromium content in the range of 18-21% permits a high degree of magnetic field penetration which is comparable to non-ferromagnetic alloys. The alloy preferably contains 8-18% Pt and optionally may contain small amounts of M... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6187253 | Method of preparing indium oxide/tin oxide target for cathodic sputtering An indium oxide/tin oxide powder with 5-15 wt. % tin oxide is subjected to an annealing treatment at Tࣙ1, 000° C. and is then partially reduced and subjected to hot isostatic pressing to produce a sputtering target with a density of at least 95% of the... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6039855 | Target for the sputtering cathode of a vacuum coating apparatus and method for its manufacture A frame (3, 4, 5, . . . 7) at least partially surrounds the target material (19), and serves to mount the target on the cathode backing plate (9), with a separating film or interlayer (20) of soft material disposed between the frame and the cathode backin... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5728279 | Cobalt base alloy target for a magnetron cathode sputtering system Target for a magnetron-cathode sputtering apparatus is made from a cobalt base alloy containing additional elements in such concentrations that intermetallic phases are formed with at least one of these elements and intermetallic phases are observed on th... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5660599 | Process for the recycling of spent indium oxide-tin oxide sputtering targets Compacted ITO material is ground to a powder with particles in the size range of less than 500 μm, whereupon the powder thus obtained is molded into new target blanks, either alone or in a mixture with unused ITO powder, under the simultaneous action of ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5531948 | Process for the production of partially reduced indium oxide-tin oxide targets The tin-containing component of a powder mixture includes SnO and is subjected to a mixing treatment with the In2 O3 before compaction to adjust the degree of reduction of the sputtering target in a simple and reproducible manner.... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5480532 | Sputter target for cathodic atomization to produce transparent, conductive layers A target for production of transparent electrically conductive layers by cathode sputtering is produced from indium oxide-tin oxide powder mixtures or coprecipitated indium oxide-tin oxide powders. A target with especially high mechanical strength consist... | 01/02/1996 |
